Best quote from this blog in 2007: Twitter asks one question: "What are you doing?" At some point in the next five years, investors will ask Twitter co-founder Biz Stone one question: "What are you doing?"

According to a new Pew/Internet study, 59% of all American teenagers engage in at least one form of online content creation. Of those 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys. Boys however like their video, with 19% of boys posting video online vs. 10% of girls.

Other figures from the study:

39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos

33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends, or school assignments

28% have created their own online journal or blog, up from 19% in 2004.

27% maintain their own personal webpage

26% remix content they find online into their own creations

The survey found that content creation is not just about sharing creative output; it is also about participating in conversations fueled by that content. Nearly half (47%) of online teens have posted photos where others can see them, and 89% of those teens who post photos say that people comment on the images at least "some of the time."

The argument between Will Ferrell and Pearl, has been viewed close to 50 million times on FunnyorDie.com. As AdAge wrote, "That was enough to prompt Sequoia Capital, the same firm that funded YouTube, to invest."

The music lover's guide to the net - Independent Online EditionThere's a whole lot more to music on the internet than iTunes and MySpace. Whether you want to remix Radiohead's latest release, watch Arcade Fire play in a freight elevator, or find out what's hot in Harare, there's a site to cater for you. Tim Walker so ...

Yep, thanks to recent, incredible developments in PageTurn(tm) technology, there’s now an exciting new way to browse the Internet on the move. By book! So dump that PDA grandpa. Drown your mouse. Dropkick your iPhone into a nearby pond. Get The Internet Now In Handy Book Form! TODAY!

David's own site is here. He told me that he wrote the book in an attempt to pick up girls. Given the company he kept when I met him at the Webby 5s event over at the ICA, I think he may be on to something ...

Mmmm... This could take me all day, but here's a couple of things worth bearing in mind.

1: Don't take yourself so bloody seriously. Ad people in Britain still think you can do good work and enjoy yourself at the same time. Even if they're a bloody MBA.

2: If you get invited out for a pint after work... Go. You might even enjoy it. And if you don't... Pretend you do.

3: Don't make jokes about the weather, British food, or lack of personal or dental hygiene. Even though your parents spent a fortune on braces and corrective dental surgery, when you probably didn't need it, but 'cos everyone else in your school had a mouthful of tin you had to conform... It isn't such a big deal here.

4: Don't get upset when everyone around you swears like a trooper, even when they now use words that would have caused a trooper to blush ten years ago.

5: Don't defend Bush in particular or American politics in general. Both are indefensible and you'll only get an earful of the previously mentioned language.

6: Be prepared to accept that in general, British women are better looking and much more sexy than American women.

Here are two of my favourite videos of this year. If you want a simple, easy-to-understand way of learning about "web 2.0" and the associated impact on the information economy, you won't find anything better.

The Machine is Us/ing Usby Michael WeschFirst Released on January 31st 2007"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes. I was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, I decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it.

Information R/evolutionby Michael WeschFirst Released on October 12th 2007This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video serves well as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.

It is a nice exercise in buzzword bingo, and it has a very catchy title. That said, a few of the charts (like the one above) make for nice PPT slides.

By 2012, the landscape of the industry will change so profoundly that to survive, advertising industry players need to take aggressive steps to innovate in three key areas:

Consumers: making micro-segmentation and personalization paramount in marketing

Business models: how and where advertising inventory is sold, the structure and forms of partnerships, revenue models and advertising formats

Business design and infrastructure: All players need to redesign organizational and operating capabilities across the advertising lifecycle to support consumer and business model innovation: consumer analytics, channel planning, buying/selling, creation, delivery and impact reporting.

The Jim White track is cool, as is one from The Walkmen. Arcade Fire's "Chestnuts Roasting" is hilarious.

In fact, they're all pretty good.

Belle and Sebastian's cover of the Peanut's tune is a nice compliment to the much more offbeat Califone version of "Welcome Christmas" ... originally sung by the Whos of Whoville. Remember them? One of the few up-tempo tracks, Zumpano's "The Mods of Christmastown" is excellent.

There are too many of 'em, too often, but this set compiled by Vint Cerf and published in The Guardian is pretty good. Since I'm feeling particularly snarky today, I'm going to make some Copredictions right along side of the "real ones" below.Tell me the futureThe Guardian, Monday December 3 2007

When we asked Vint Cerf, chief evangelist at Google, to guest edit MediaGuardian, we expected him to bring us some luminaries of the web who we don't often get to hear from. His choices transform an often-asked question ("what's the future?"), into an insight into the thinking of innovators and pioneers. It's no coincidence that three of them are founders of some of the biggest web names.

Cerf must be so proud to have invented the internet with Al Gore. If anything, it gives him access to everyone.

Chris De Wolfe: Social networkingCEO, co-founder MySpace

First, as we expand these social destinations to all corners of the world, we must always think in terms of the individual. With millions of people using social websites, there's an increasing demand to make everyone's web experience personal.

His first prediction is global personalization. Write me when that's live, ok?

In the same way a home or office is your physical address, we expect your personal, online social profile to become your internet address. When I give out www.myspace.com/chrisdewolfe to friends and colleagues, everyone knows where to find me online.

i-boy Copredicton #1: An increasingly smaller number of people will be giving out their myspace page address to friends and colleagues in the future.

We expect aspects of all socially-based sites to become increasingly portable. In terms of mobile, we expect to have relationships with every carrier and device-maker in the world and we expect that half of our future traffic will come from non-PC users.

i-boy Copredicton #2: Whatever MySpace manages to do on mobile will not make enough money to break even for at least the next 5 years, if ever. Bonus: The "50 percent of traffic from mobile" estimate is absurd in the short to medium term.

Moving right along ...

Chad Hurley: VideoCEO, co-founder YouTube

I agree with every prediction Chad makes ... They're not daring by any means, but they'll all come true.

In five years, video broadcasting will be the most ubiquitous and accessible form of communication. The tools for video recording will continue to become smaller and more affordable. Personal media devices will be universal and interconnected. People will have the opportunity to record and share video with a small group of friends or everyone around the world.

Today, eight hours of new video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. This will grow exponentially over the next five years. This new video content will be available on any screen.

In the next five years, users will be at the centre of their video experience, you will have more access to more information, and the world will be a smaller place.

Next up, let's see what one of the titans of the ad biz has to say.Maurice Lévy: AdvertisingChairman and CEO, Publicis Groupe

Virtually all media will be digital, and digital will enable almost all kinds of advertising.

Ok, I'm down with that, Mau.

Online advertising will depend more than ever on the one element which has always been at the heart of impactful advertising, both analogue and digital: creativity.

I love how big bosses think their agencies are the guardians of creativity. The best part is that the press eats this up.

The explosion of media channels means this is a glorious time to think and act creatively. In art history terms, we are at the dawn of the Renaissance after the Dark Ages.

I agree with much of what they have to say because I am an optimist and believe that with our help Africa can overcome war and disease.

Overall progress will occur, but realistically, the limited or unavailable national infrastructure (power and fibre) will make it difficult to attain economies of scale, which will limit pan-African internet development between now and 2012.

The explosion in mobile telephony that has turned Africa into the fastest-growing market in the world, at more than twice the international average growth in subscriber numbers, will continue to drive locally-fuelled innovations.

i-boy Copredicton #6: The "One Laptop per Child" will pave the way for much more significant and far-reaching initiatives who will owe a debt of gratitude to a small, cluncky, battery-powered cheap green plastic laptop.

He made more moves and logged more air miles than most people we know. He lived in New Brunswick, NYC, Princeton, Philadelphia, Vienna and London. He was 14 and will be missed by a lot of people. As K pointed out, ironically today is Saint Nicholas Day.

There's plenty of stuff worth blogging about, but it's late, I'm in the office, the cat is really not well, and I'm having "a bit of a moment", as they say. In that moment, I thought of New Slang. It sums it up.